Phantasmagoria 2 / Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle Of Flesh Censorship

Phantasmagoria 2 was censored in various countries. This page tries to go into detail about it.

Known Versions

Country

Release

Box Barcode

CD-Case Barcode

Version

State

US

First release

020626232883

none

???

FULLY UNCUT

United Kingdom

First release

3348542019638

3348542019683

001.0.06

censored heavily (violence)

United Kingdom

Sierra Originals Budget

3348542045224

3348542019683

001.0.06

censored heavily (violence)

United Kingdom

Additional release?

3348542012257

3348542019690

001.0.000

FULLY UNCUT

Germany

First English release

3348542013858

???

???

censored heavily (violence)same as UK release

Germany

Second English release

3348542013858

3348542019737

001.0.000

FULLY UNCUT

Germany

Localized German release

3348542019652

3348542019737

000.1 .0vú (sic)

FULLY UNCUTone 39 second scene is missing though

Germany

Localized German release Sierra Originals

???

???

???

???

France

Localized French release

3348542019645

3348542019669

???

FULLY UNCUTone 39 second scene is missing though

France

Localized French release Sierra Originals

3348542033368

3348542019669

???

FULLY UNCUTone 39 second scene is missing though

Spain

Localized Spanish release

???

???

???

unknown

Spain

Localized Spanish release Sierra Originals

3348542012257

???

???

unknown

Australia

First release

???

???

???

censored heavily

Japan

First release

4512756000570

???

001.0.000

FULLY UNCUTEnglish audio w/ Japanese subtitles

GOG

Digital release

none

none

001.0.06

FULLY UNCUT

Note: all sorts of sites claim, that Phantasmagoria 2 released in UK was censored in terms of sex scenes too. This simply is not the case. The censored scenes are first and second murder scenes only. Those were censored heavily in terms of violence though.

Second note: the uncut UK version seems to be Windows-only. The censored UK version is Windows+DOS.

United States: uncensored release

United Kingdom: CENSORED release

United Kingdom: uncensored release

Note: the uncensored release has "Windows 95" on the box. The censored release has "Windows 95/DOS 5.0" on the box.

Germany: CENSORED first English release

Germany: uncensored second English release

Germany: uncensored localized release

Spain: ??? localized release Sierra Originals

Japan: uncensored release (ファンタズム2)

Game was fully localized except for audio, which is English. Text in background pictures was changed to Japanese.
videos have Japanese subtitles.

Relevant Files

Even the uncensored game offers an option to remove/change certain scenes.
When this option is enabled, different files are used. This here is a list of the relevant files.
It also includes special versions of some files - for example the UK version does not contain some uncut files at all and it was censored even more than the original optionally censored file.

Censorship differences - uncensored vs. UK censored version

This goes into detail about the changes made to the UK censored version.

scene

details

4391.DUK - murder scene

got replaced by 4395.DUK, an even more heavily censored version than the original censored version included with the uncensored game

4395.DUK - murder scene

based on the censored version included with the uncensored gamethis goes even further and removes basically all the remains of violence

0:27 to 0:29 - original: victim gets punched in the face (bloody), replaced by more of Curtis walking forward in slow-motion0:34 to 0:35 - original: victim gets nail hammered into one of his hands, also replaced by more of Curtis walking forward in slow-motion0:41 - original: black+white photo flashback showing nail in victim's hand, this was cut out

you still see that the victim is thrown around and 2 photo flashbacks, but that's it.

sex part is completely intact2:30 onwardsbasically the whole murder part of the scene got removed right after the woman spots the murdereryou see that an iron chain is getting thrown over some pipes at the ceilingfollowed by an alternate quite long take at 2:35 of her hands being tied up with the iron chain, followed by a fadeout.

the censored version is the same except for the murder part again.In the censored version from the uncensored game, you at least see that the woman got tied up using the iron chain and that her feet are in the air - struggling.In the UK version even this was replaced with the already mentioned alternate long take of her hands being tied up with the iron chain at 2:06, followed by the same fadeout.

Differences between localized versions

A few changes were made to the localized versions (German + French). Those were not censored, violence and/or gore were not changed.
Japanese version features the English videos but simply with Japanese subtitles (encoded into video stream).

CD

file name

original length

new length

content

CD1

3920.DUK

0:39

0:13

was: Therese and Curtis meet at water coolerthis scene was replaced with Curtis just getting a drinkThis is a copy of 3390.DUK

CD3

4620.DUK

0:34

0:27

Therese attacks Curtis, edited differentlyhas no dialog at all in the German+French versionless suspenseful